Dyne! He's the penultimate Dragonmaster! I also like how you get to see him in two different ways. First as the hero of Lunar, a young man full of ideals. Then as an older man, no longer in any positions of power, just adventuring as he loves to do while still keeping to his old oaths to protect Lunar, watch over Luna, and so on. Most hero stories stop after the first one.

"Just as you touch the energy of every life form you meet, so, too, will will their energy strengthen you. Fail to live up to your potential, and you will never win. " --- The Old Man at the End of Time

Man, that is so weird. Everything about Lunn's story that IS known is repulsive. Even the people in the dojo who apparently don't know about his cult say that he's sadistic. Add to that the child abduction and abuse, and I always felt there was an undertone of sexual abuse in Jean's story too -- if not by Lunn then by his underlings.

I haven't voted because I like most of the TSS group and Leo as well. It did occur to me, reading Sonic#'s comment, that it's interesting to compare Leo to Dyne/Laike. As an adult, Leo has the idealism that Dyne would have had as a young dragonmaster-aspirant, although his role as White Knight is different from that of a Dragonmaster. His reaction to learning about the false Althena is perhaps reminiscent of Ghaleon's reactions to what he (Ghaleon) considered Althena's folly (in both main versions of the Lunar 1 storyline), first cracking and then acting to bring down the current power structure even though he'd held a key role in it.

Actually, Leo at the end of the game is probably close to what Dyne would have been like if he'd publicly "retired" as Dragonmaster rather than being presumed dead. I had some other thought along these lines but seem to have lost it.

Well, Lemia, Mel, Leo, and Mauri were the only ones who were completely heroes. Mel did have a pirate past, though he moved past it when he became a 'hero'. Leo and Mauri were manipulated/controlled, but Leo at least still pursued what was right himself, even though he was part of a larger organization that (unknown to him) was preparing for something awful.

Borgan, like Lunn, I thought had no redemption. He was in control of himself when he got the power of the Black Dragon, and he was in control of himself when he sent all those people to slave away in the mines. KF

Yeah, Mel's a nice counterpart to Dyne/Laike, going from an outside-the-law scoundrel to a respectable official. While Laike isn't exactly a scoundrel, he's not all about enforcing the law (or whatever passes for it); he finds Kyle's protection racket hilarious rather than stamping it out.

This sort of thing is why I haven't voted in this poll. Too many good options.